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Garcon team apparently taking over Young’s BBQ space
Young’s BBQ, the (ostensibly) Korean hole in the wall restaurant behind El Toro that you never went to finally closed a few months ago. Recently the space has undergone a soft story retrofit. Now a new liquor license application has appeared on the window with the name “Jerartdon LLC.” What could it mean? Two of…
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I went to a cat cafe
Today I finally got around to visiting KitTea, San Francisco’s first (and only) cat cafe. The goals of KitTea are to provide adorable cat-based entertainment, but also to find permanent homes for the cats — all of which are rescue cats up for adoption. The basics are pretty simple: you can either walk in or…
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Nuni transit-themed street art hides secret messages
Some unusual transit-themed street art has appeared around the city recently. Perhaps you’ve seen it? For example, I spotted this odd BART ticket (actually a sticker) a while back: Today I stumbled across this unofficial ad at a Muni stop: A little googling revealed that these are the works of “Nuni,” who apparently goes by…
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What’s going on here, Luna Park?
At some point in the last couple of weeks Valencia St.’s Luna Park shut its doors and stopped answering their phone. But that’s not all: two official notices (see above) appeared taped to the building. One is an order of abatement regarding building codes, the other is a notice that the building is in danger…
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52nd annual Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest
Earlier today was Muni’s annual(-ish) Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest. What is a Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest, you ask? It’s a two-part contest where “amateurs” (non-Muni employees) compete, and a second part where cable car operators compete. The rules for each part are very different. The amateur competition allows music, dancers, and apparently bribing…
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San Francisco’s city hall 100th anniversary celebration
San Francisco’s city hall building celebrated its 100th anniversary today, complete with a visit from mayors from around the country as well as the president. But this is a city that knows how to party — there was also live music, food trucks, various sculptures, and a light show projected on city hall itself. I…
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Dolores Park: What’s in a name?
The freshly renovated section of Dolores Park opens later this week. If you’re like most people, the name “Dolores Park” conjures up images in your mind of a never ending Pabst-soaked frat party. But why is it called Dolores Park? Who — or what — is it named after? Let’s start at the beginning. Originally,…
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Introducing Sanfranciscius, the temperature scale for San Franciscans
We’re all familiar with checking the weather and seeing the temperature measured in Fahrenheit and/or Celsius. But aren’t those scales a bit arbitrary? Celsius’ 0 to 100 range is based on freezing and boiling water, respectively. Fahrenheit’s scale is based on… well, who cares. It doesn’t make any sense. But neither scale was invented specifically…
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Narrow streets, remixed
Over at Steve Dombek’s Narrow Streets SF website, he proposes undoing America’s 20th century mistake of building ultra-wide streets here in San Francisco. Instead, the land would be sold off to build new housing, and we’d be left with traditional (or “narrow”) streets like you find in the rest of the world. Naturally, this idea…
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La Cumbre’s new paint job boldly stakes claim to Mission-style burrito’s origin
Recently Taqueria La Cumbre on Valencia got a fire engine red paint job. But far more bold than the color scheme is the claim painted on the building: “Birthplace of the Mission Style Burrito.” As with any such claim, it’s a hotly contested one. As Wikipedia notes it’s not clear if Mission-style burritos were invented…
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